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Coronavirus scandal surrounding post centers: have dozens of corona infected letters and parcels delivered?

2020-05-17T04:38:03.343Z


Austria continues to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. Corona outbreaks occur in two Swiss Post logistics centers. What did the agency company know?


Austria continues to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. Corona outbreaks occur in two Swiss Post logistics centers. What did the agency company know?

  • Austria does not come to rest in the Corona crisis * despite the containment of the Covid 19 pandemic *.
  • Dozens of coronavirus infections were found in a post distribution center near Vienna
  • Did employees deliver the post despite Sars CoV-2 infection  ? Soldiers of the Federal Army must now take over the tasks.

Munich / Vienna - Austria has its next scandal in the coronavirus pandemic after Ischgl. And that despite extensive protective measures such as a mask requirement * and successes in the Corona crisis .

Specifically, it is about the post office in neighboring Germany and its two largest logistics centers in Eastern Austria: Hagenbrunn and Vienna-Inzersdorf .

Corona scandal at Austrian Post: "Extremely dramatic"

"The situation is dramatic in the highest degree," said a high-ranking insiders Post AG, according to news portal oe24.at . According to the report, 138 coronavirus infections were found in the logistics centers by Saturday afternoon (May 16) .

Video: Checks at the borders with Austria, France and Switzerland are relaxed 

In Hagenbrunn , which is 20 kilometers north of the Austrian capital, there were 68 positive Corona cases among 650 employees. 

In Inzersdorf in the southwest of the metropolis, 70 corona cases have been identified with just as many employees . In the meantime, both logistics centers were completely paralyzed.

Coronavirus scandal at Austrian Post: soldiers have to help

The Austrian army had to advance to Hagenbrunn . The center of excellence for combating nuclear, biological and chemical threats "decontaminated" the buildings there, according to the authorities. 

Soldiers are now supposed to maintain an emergency operation to distribute parcels, deliveries and letters.

Soldiers from the #Bundesheeres will take on tasks in the post distribution center Hagenbrunn for the next 14 days. The building is decontaminated beforehand by @kdoabc specialists. The post is paid for by the Post. # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/DJvSdg1Uyl

- Michael Bauer (@Bundesheerbauer) May 15, 2020

According to krone.at , a temporary agency company is to be responsible for bringing employees to the distribution centers. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the personnel infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 continued to work after the infections. It is unclear whether the company and the post office had known about it, it said.

Corona cases also in the German parcel center near Heinsberg

According to Krone.at , six corona cases were also found in the logistics center of a large furniture store in Floridsdorf. More than 165,000 citizens live in Vienna's northernmost district. 

Striking: Even in the corona crisis in Germany *, a parcel center with 400 employees was quarantined near the Heinsberg hotspot because of new corona cases. Are new Corona cookers emerging in logistics centers?

Despite the army deployment threatens loudly oe24.at a day-long chaos in the postal delivery of luggage in the Alpine republic. And after the first border openings to Bavaria * were agreed, the examples show that the Covid 19 pandemic in Austria is far from being contained.

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* merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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